List of notable Laeralian legislation

This page is a list of notable legislation enacted at the federal, provincial, or municipal level in Laeral.

First Allied Provinces

Notable laws enacted under the First Allied Provinces

• Land Tenure Act of 1888, which incorporated the provinces of Meilun, Enara, Neidong, Nanhai, and Jinhua (the so-called MENNJ provinces) into Laeral as the first Rén-majority provinces while providing for land seizure, whereby Rén farmers were forcibly relocated to reserve territories and productive agricultural lands distributed to Arrivée settlers via lottery.

Republican Period

Notable laws enacted during the Republican Period

Gramont Administration (1922-1932)

• Land Reform Act of 1923, which established redistribution of land from landowners who had fled abroad or taken up arms against the Army for Democracy and Progress. This law also established the National Rural Reconstruction Administration to oversee rural development.

• State Resources Act of 1923, which established state monopolies in various fields including mines, railroads, and steel production.
• Postal and Telecommunications Act of 1923, which set the goal of funding at least one radio for every village in Laeral.
• Automotive Act of 1924, which established the AMCA Automotive Corporation.
• Laeralian Legal Code of 1924, which established the first Laeralian national court system and provided for equal justice under the law regardless of race and racially-integrated juries, as well as fully legalizing interracial marriage.
• Rights of Women Act of 1925, which banned arranged marriage, abolished existing laws barring women from most professional careers, and established the first explicit right of women to obtain a divorce.
• Popular Education Act of 1925, which banned homeschooling and provided for free bilingual primary school education with a unified national curriculum for all.
• Sexual Deviancy Act of 1926, which banned sodomy.
• Land to the Tiller Act of 1928, which expropriated all private landholdings of over 40 hectares for redistribution to landless or small farmers.
• Decent Work Hours Act of 1929, which established an eight-hour work day and limited work at night.
• Progressive Medicine Act of 1930, which nominally banned traditional Rén medical practices and established a national licensing program for doctors.
• Public Hospitals Act of 1931, which established a limited network of public hospitals offering services at nominal rates.
• Collectivization of Agriculture Act of 1931, which provided for the establishment of collective farms in western Laeral.
• Election of Local Offices Act of 1932, which provided for the election to many local offices nationwide in 1932 and the gradual election of provincial governors over the coming years.

Salaun Administration (1932-1942)

• National Education Act of 1933, which abolished religious education.
• Public Hygiene and Disease Control Act of 1935, which provided for cleanliness education and for the creation of Rural Health Commissioners to teach public health in rural Laeral.
• Northeastern Frontier Act of 1937, which established the Northeastern Frontier Authority to regulate settlement of Laeralian settlers, largely Solavanian immigrants, to the Xueyan region.

Sun Administration (1947-1954)

• Immigration Act of 1950, which greatly increased permissible immigration to Laeral.

Notable decrees enacted during the Republican Period

• Decree No. 1 (1922) which banned the practice of forced labor (corvée) except as punishment for a crime.
• Decree No. 4 (1922) which declared a state of emergency to be in effect and suspended certain constitutional guarantees on justice in cases involving political crimes.
• Decree No. 23 (1927), which legalized the Liberal Democratic Party (Laeral) as a legal opposition party ahead of the 1927 Laeralian legislative election.
• Decree No. 25 (1928), which banned the Rén Self-Defense League.
• Decree No. 54 (1934), which legalized the National Cooperative Party (Laeral) as an opposition party.
• Decree No. 126 (1942), which ended the state of emergency established under Decree No. 4.
• Decree No. 131 (1943), the first large-scale pardoning of political prisoners.

Second Allied Provinces

Notable laws enacted under the Second Allied Provinces

1950-1959

• Agricultural Banking Act of 1955, which created the AgriBank agricultural bank, responsible for issuing low-interest loans to private farmers.
• Character Simplification Act of 1956, which established a board responsible for issuing simplifications of Mandarin characters.
• Flag Act of 1957, which criminalized the burning or desecration of the Laeralian national or republican flags. Repealed in 1995.

1960-1969

• Military Readiness Act of 1961, which enacted the draft for all able-bodied men at the beginning of the Great War.
• Rice and Barley Price Control Act of 1963, which aimed to stabilize the supply of staple grains during the Great War.
• Gramont Mausoleum Act of 1965, which created the Gramont Mausoleum.
• Education Act of 1967, which legalized religious education, overturning the National Education Act of 1933.
• Taxation Act of 1968, which introduced the value-added tax.
• Space Research and Operations Act of 1968, which created ALORS, the Laeralian space exploration agency.

1970-1979

• Northeastern Frontier Status Act of 1970, which declared Laeralian sovereignty over the Xueyan Special Administrative Region.
• Sanctity of Motherhood Act of 1971, which criminalized abortion and imposed stricter penalties for violence against pregnant women and mothers.
• University Tuition Act of 1972, which reduced tuitions for low-income students at public universities.
• Clean Air Act of 1974, which issued restrictions on air pollution in Laeral's first major environmental law.
• Civil Code Act of 1977, which revised the civil code and liberalized laws around divorce and abortion.
• National Resources Compact Act of 1978, which gave a greater share of resource revenues, particularly oil revenue, to the provinces from which these resources were extracted, particularly benefitting the oil-producing provinces of the Xianhai Peninsula.

1980-1989

• Petroleum Act of 1982, which privatized the state-run Laeralian Oil corporation.

2020-2029

• 21st Century Social Housing Act of 2020, which established a legal right to housing and increased funding for social housing as well as facilitating reporting of unsafe housing conditions.
• Legislative Representation Allocation and Electoral Reform Act of 2022, which, in response to a decision by the Laeralian Constitutional Court, reformed the allocation of seats in the General Assembly to increase the chamber's proportionality.

Notable constitutional amendments enacted under the Second Allied Provinces

• 11th Amendment (1965) which provided for proportional election in the Assembly of Commons, initially with a 5% threshold, to replace the prior single-member district system.
• 30th Amendment (1998) which removed the avenue by which the president could be elected with a plurality of the vote if they had won the popular vote in a majority of provinces.